HRM 522 WEEK 5 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTION

HRM 522 WEEK 5 MIDTERM EXAM PART 2 VERSION 1
VERSION 1

Question 1

________ responsibilities relate to a business’s contributions to stakeholders.

Answer

Economic

Legal

Ethical

Voluntary

Social responsiveness

Question 2

Which of the following is not a benefit to businesses of engaging in voluntary responsibilities?

Answer

Help create an ethical culture and values that can act as a buffer to organizational misconduct

Reduce government involvement by providing assistance to stakeholders

Develop employee leadership skills

Improve employee compensation and retention

Improve the quality of life in communities

Question 3

The primary objective of U.S. antitrust laws is to

Answer

protect consumers from high prices and foreign products.

protect domestic businesses.

protect employees.

promote strategies that enhance business welfare over consumer welfare.

distinguish competitive strategies that enhance consumer welfare from those that reduce it.

Question 4

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer

prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.

penalizes the top executives in an organization for misconduct.

is basically the same as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

discourages whistle-blowers from reporting misconduct.

prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of gender.

Question 5

Which of the following acts, passed in response to public outrage over conditions described in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, was the first consumer protection legislation?

Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1974

Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Question 6

Which is not one of the four sources of criminal and civil laws?

Answer

Judicial law

Common law

Constitutional law

Administrative law

Statutory law

Question 7

________ tie(s) an organization’s product(s) directly to a social concern through a marketing program.

Answer

Voluntary contributions

Cause-related marketing

Strategic philanthropy

Corporate giving

Employee benefits

Question 8

Cause related marketing can affect consumer ________, if consumers are sympathetic to the cause and the brand and cause are seen as a good fit.

Answer

individual ethics

tastes

perceptions

budgets

buying patterns

Question 9

Companies take basic ________ and translate them into core ________.

Answer

Customs, values

Values, principles

Cultures, principles

Cultures, customs

Principles, values

Question 10

Which of the following is not considered a significant other group in the workplace?

Answer

Peers

Managers

Spouses

Coworkers

Subordinates

Question 11

Those who have influence in a work group are referred to as significant others and include

Answer

peers, managers, coworkers, and subordinates.

family members, peers, and coworkers.

spouses and friends.

employees in similar job situations.

employees who hold the same job.

Question 12

Which of the following is not an issue that helps in business ethics evaluations and decisions?

Answer

Ethical issue intensity

Individual factors

Organizational factors

Personal guilt

Opportunity

Question 13

Which of the following is not one of the six “spheres of influence” to which individuals are subject when confronted with an ethical issue?

Answer

Educational attainment

Workplace

Family

Legal system

Community

Question 14

The ________ includes the motivational “carrots and sticks” superiors use to influence employee behavior.

Answer

Obedience to authority

Immediate job context

Locus of control

Normative approach

Descriptive approach

Question 15

Normative business ethics takes into account the ________ realities outside the legal realm in the form of industry standards.

Answer

Descriptive

Political

Social

Economic

Normative

Question 16

Following the ethical directives of a superior relates to

Answer

an internal locus of control.

obedience to authority.

moral intensity.

gender.

ethical issue intensity

Question 17

When a person defines right and wrong on the basis of legal contracts, he or she is using which of Kohlberg’s stages of development?

Answer

Punishment and obedience (1st stage)

Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity (3rd stage)

Social system and conscience maintenance (4th stage)

Prior rights, social contract, or utility (5th stage)

Universal ethical principles (6th stage)

Question 18

Which moral philosophy is based on the premise that equal respect must be given to all persons?

Answer

The relativist perspective

Deontology

Egoism

Teleology

Utilitarianism

Question 19

An individual who emphasizes others rather than himself or herself in making decisions is in which of the following of Kohlberg’s stages of development?

Answer

Universal ethical principles (6th stage)

Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity (3rd stage)

Social system and conscience maintenance (4th stage)

Punishment and obedience (1st stage)

Prior rights, social contract, or utility (5th stage)

Question 20

Which is the last of Kohlberg’s stages of cognitive moral development?

Answer

Individual instrumental purpose and exchange

Need achievement

Social system and conscience maintenance

Punishment and obedience

Universal ethical principles

Question 21

________ justice is based on the evaluation of outcomes or results of the business relationship.

Answer

Procedural

Interactional

Distributive

Ethical

Egotistical

Question 22

________ justice considers the processes and activities that produce the outcome or results.

Answer

Disruptive

Procedural

Interactional

Communications

Evaluative

Question 23

A central problem with relativism is

Answer

that it emphasizes people’s differences, not similarities.

that few people believe that these principles are important.

that they are very complicated.

that they represent unattainable goals.

that many feel that virtue ethics only works in theory.

Question 24

________ deals with the issue of what individuals feel they are due based on their rights and performance in the workplace, and therefore is more likely to be based on deontological moral philosophies than on teleological or utilitarian ones.

Answer

Rights

Virtue ethics

Justice

Relativism

Egoism

Question 25

Enlightened egoism

Answer

is when an individual puts spiritual feelings above all others.

centers completely on the short-term well-being of others.

centers on one’s short-term self-interest.

centers on one’s long-term self-interest but takes others’ well-being into account.

centers on the long-term well-being of others